For round over shaper cutters go to the Felder site and type PN 500-04-087 for Standard and PN 04.0.149 for Professional. The universal cutter setup can be confusing but when setup properly can be used to achieve what you need. This will include setting the cutter for top feed or bottom feed and being able to reverse the cutter rotation. The HS knives are inexpensive and readily available from many sources?other than Felder and are all of the same quality.
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 8:51 AM TJ Cornish <
tj@...> wrote:
I am awaiting delivery of a CF531. This will be my first shaper. I'm familiar with router bits of course and the fantastic custom stuff you can do with shaper tooling like rail and stile cutters, but am trying to get my head around how you do normal things such as coves and roundovers.
I like the idea of a multi-knife head like the Felder 40mm safety head, and I understand the function of chip limiters which sure seem like a good idea to me, but the knife choices that are available from the Felder site are in many cases, really odd and I struggle to see how I would use them. Conspicuously absent are a set of radiuses - 6mm, 9mm, 12mm, etc., sizes that are ubiquitous in router bits and probably some of the first profiles new router users buy. This seems true even in the Amana line - there are a lot of strange choices, but finding normal knives is challenging.
I understand the idea of shifting the head up or down to get several profiles on one knife, but again, a lot of the knives I see don't seem particularly useful.? What am I missing? How do you best do normal things on a shaper??
For example, this is one of the few knives that makes sense to me:??It has the roundover and cove profiles for an 8mm radius on one knife, and I can see how to use both of these. Why aren't there similar knives in other radiuses?
In non-replacable tooling, I've found roundover cutters like these:??but I'm surprised that I can't find the comparable stuff in the replacable knives world.
What am I missing?? Thanks in advance.
